Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Do without This was a popular ditty during the Depression era, when pinching pennies was a way of life. It’s also a useful poem for consumers to remember as they try to shop in a more environmentally conscious way. Use it up: This is self explanatory. [...]

Recently, Be Green Info brought you a story about locavores – consumers committed to eating locally grown food, in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from long distance trucking and the overpackaging that accompanies food from far away. Sometimes, though, there isn’t any local produce available, or farmer’s markets are held at inconvenient times and [...]

Children are full of amazing ideas.  That has been proven at Griffin Memorial School in Litchfield, New Hampshire.  During a lesson with Fern Seiden, the school’s guidance counselor, a third grade class suggested starting a bottle recycling program.  The students were concerned with the great amount of plastic water bottles that were placed in the [...]

Ethanol has been touted as an alternative, renewable energy source. It is created from plant matter, and there is no drilling required. If the United States could convert from imported oil to an ethanol-based biofuel, energy independence would be assured. Or would it? Ethanol in America is derived from corn kernels and has been used [...]

When cooking: Before you decide to throw out something, take a second look at it. Can it be recycled? Generally, if it’s labeled as a number 1 or 2 plastic, the item can be recycled. (Don’t forget to recycle all paper products as well.) Can it be reused? Perhaps a container that can’t be recycled [...]